Motivational Quotes

Courage

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Courage

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

10.

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

12.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

13.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

14.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

16.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

17.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

18.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

20.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

21.

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

22.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

24.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

25.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

26.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

27.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

28.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

29.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

30.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

32.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

33.

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

34.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

35.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

36.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

37.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

38.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

39.

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

40.

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

42.

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

43.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

44.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

45.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

46.

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

47.

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

49.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von